In an interview with The Canadian Press after Sunday's bombing, [Asadullah Khalid] suggested that coalition troops weren't paying enough attention to Afghan information in their efforts to defeat the Taliban.

"We are requesting, telling to ISAF many times: 'Let's go to this village, or this mountain or this corner, have a post here because this is a transit way for Taliban,' " he said.

"They wanted to cause such big casualties in these attacks to weaken the morale of the government and the international community, to show the world the Afghan government is too weak to prevent them," he said.